David McVicar’s spectacular staging of Umberto Giordano’s epic verismo opera of revolution and forbidden love from 2015 is brought back…
When you put two geniuses together there is no guarantee that what they create will match the expectation; there is…
Mozart’s classic four-act comic opera, an adaptation with Da Ponte of Beaumarchais’ banned 1778 play about warring masters and servants,…
A staple of the operatic repertoire around the world, this was my third Madama Butterfly this year although in contrast…
Recorded just prior to lockdown and largely unedited, conductor Antonio Pappano introduces a new production of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio,…
By the time it was retired in 2015, the Royal Opera’s previous production of La Bohème, directed by John Copley,…